Poland's vaccines chief not ruffled by church objections
April 16, 2021
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's top vaccination official said Thursday he did not see any obstacle to the country's inoculation program from the "moral" reservations expressed by the powerful Catholic Church about two vaccines.
Poland's Episcopate bioethical team on Wednesday said the use of the AstraZeneca and the Johnson & Johnson vaccines raised "serious moral opposition." It said that was because their technology is linked to lines of cells derived from aborted fetuses.
On Thursday, Michal Dworczyk, the government official in charge of the national inoculation program, rejected the suggesti...
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